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Character Analysis of the Everyday Use王鹤澎英语 1201201202902014/10/25Character Analysis of the Everyday UseTony Wanglice Walker, the splendid writer who main focused at American Women literature and blackliterature, wrote the Everyday Use at the beginning of the twentieth century. As one of the most famous short story of Alice Walker, Everyday Use represent the conflicts of three black women. And this story became classic work in American literature because of its profound ideological level and perfect artistic quality.There are three main character in the story. The Mama, a laborious woman; Dee, eldestdaughter of Mama, who is beautiful, smart and well-educated; Maggie, in contrast with her sister, who is ugly, cowardice and self-abased. The writer used symbolize, metaphor and others rhetorical devices express the different attitudes of Negros when their culture was impact by a stronger one. Dee is the symbol of Black Culture Nationalism Activity. In the 1960s, some African-American started the Black Culture Nationalism Activity, which aimed at deny the unfair culture position and find Negro’s native culture. In the colonialist culture blacks become inferior nation, so Dee want to change this situation. She thought she love the everyday use of her family, changed her name which she thought was white imposed to her, worn the native clothes (in her mind) of black. However, she still cannot find her position in her mind. In fact, Dee was the woman who wandered between the first world and the third world. She want to enter the main world with her dignity and honor of Negros, but fell into the marsh of confuse. Faced with westerners, she cannot say a word or in accordance with her native culture. In the other hand, faced with her family, she had superiority complex strangely. Because she abandoned one important part of her native culture stage – Negros’ humiliating history. She was not grieved when the house, which was full of her family’s sufferi